Store furniture.



G. D. HAGAR.

STORE FURNITURE.

APPLLCATION FILED APR. 14. I916.

Patented July 17, 1917.

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G. D. HAGAR.

I STORE FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14. 19l6.

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GEORGE D. HAGAR, .OF ALTON, IOWA.

STORE FURNITURE.

To all w/zom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. HAGAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alton, in the county of Sioux and State of .lowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Store Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to store furniture and has special reference to cabinets for the display of merchandise. One object of the invention is to provide a cabinet which may be readily extended to' accommodate stocks of various sizes and which will be provided with means for supporting a conveyor for bags and weighing scales. A further object of the invention is to provide a refrigerating system in connection with the cabinet so that perishable goods will be preserved.

These stated objects of my invention and such other objects as will incidentally appear from the following description are attained in the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the invention resides in certain novel features which will be particularly pointed out in the claims following the description.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dis play cabinet having my improvements applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section;

Fig. 3 is a detail section of the end of the refrigerating tube.

In carrying out my invention, I construct the cabinet in sections, indicated at 1, 2 and 3, which will be duplicates in construction so that by placing any number of the sections end to end, store furniture of any desired capacity may be provided. The cabinet sections are provided with upper portions or compartments 4 containing shelves 7 or bins and provided with doors 5. The lower portion of the cabinet is extended beyond the front of the upper compartments i and the front wall of the lower portion is inclined, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2. This extended portion of the cabinet will provide an intermediate compartment 6 and a lower compartment 7, which compartments may be sub-divided by transverse partitions into as many smaller bins or merchandise receiving chambers as may be desired. In the front end of each merchandise receiving chamber I provide a filling door 8, which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1917.

Application filed April 14, 1916. Serial No. 91,148.

will preferably be of such dimensions as to be substantially coextensive with the end of the compartment and will be of wood or metal, or other substantial material. Disposed centrally in each door 8 is a circular glass door 9 which will be of suflicient diameter to permit ready access to the goods when a sale is made. The provision of the glass .door will permit the goods to be viewed without being handled so that the sanitary condition of the goods will be maintained and it will not be necessary to open the compartment and admit warm air to the goods in order that customers may examine the same. Moreover, the goods will be placed in the compartments as they are received by the merchant in the original packages and, consequently, damaging and disease-transmitting handling of the goods will be avoided.

Disposed longitudinally of the cabinet in the lower rear corner of the same is a refrigcrating tube 10 which is supported by brackets 11 secured to the back wall of the cabinet and so arranged as to drain from one end to the other end. An outlet or Waste pipe may be providedat the drain end of this tube to carry 01f the water in any desired manner. The filling end of the tube is enlarged, as shown at 12, and is normally closed by a door 13, which is hingedly mounted in the end wall of the cabinet. A plunger 14 is mounted in the tube adjacent the said door and is provided with a stem 15 projecting through the end wall of the cabinet and provided with a handle 16. A spring 17 is coiled around this stem between the end wall of the cabinet and the plunger and tends to hold the plunger away from the wall of the cabinet so that the door 13, which is connected with the plunger by toggles 18, will be normally held closed. WVhen it is desired to place ice in the refrigerating tubethe plunger is withdrawn, as shown in Fig. 3, and the door 13 thereby opened. As the blocks of ice are placed in the tube the plunger is released and by acting against the blocks will feed them toward the drain end of the tube. It will be understood that the toggles are duplicated and placed near the side edges of the plunger and the door so that they will not interfere with the admission of the ice. An air passage or pipe 30 is provided transversely at intervals throughout the cabinet and vents 31 are W11 What I n 3 4 A I formed in this passage at various polnts to permit the escape of the cold air to the sev* eral compartments.

Upon the top of the cabinet and close to the front edge of the same is a guide rail 19 which may be a rod of circular cross section so as to be readily engaged by grooved rollers 20 mounted in the upper ends of supporting arms 21, which extend upwardly and rearwardly from the rear edge of a platform 22. This platform 22 is secured to the upper ends of standards 2? which are provided at their lower ends with grooved rollers 24 adapted to ride upon a guide rail 25 which extends the full length of the cabinet on the inclined front portion of the same between the upper and lower rows of doors. This arrangement is clearly shown in Figsl and 2 and in Fig. 1 it will be noted that brackets 26 are provided at the ends of this rail and at intervals in the length of the same to reinforce it. Hooks 27 are provided on the underside of the platform to hold bags or wrapping paper, as will be readily understood.

The different articles of merchandise are placed in the several compartments or bins provided by my cabinet and will be protectedthereby from all accumulations of dust or contact with disease spreading instrumentalities. The doors 9 being glazed or entirely of transparent material, all of the articles may be readily viewed so that their condition will be seen at any time and handling of the goods will be minimized. The merchants time will be saved as it will not be necessary for him to travel back and forth from the compartments to a counter but the conveyer or carrier comprising the platform 22 upon which a Weighing scale 28 may be placed can be readily shifted from end to end of the cabinet so that the scales will be in the proximity of the goods to be weighed whenever needed. The refrigerating compartment is simply constructed and so located that the goods will not become saturated with moisture nor will the water from the melting ice be liable to run over and destroy the goods.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A display cabinet comprising a lower portion having an inclined front wall and a top portion above the first-mentioned portion, a guide rail on said top portion near the front side of the same, a guide rail on the inclined front Wall of the lower portion of the cabinet, and a carrier supported by the lower rail and mounted to travel thereon and having supporting arms extending rearwardly and upwardly to engage the upper guide rail.

2. The. combination of a cabinet having an inclined front wall and a top portion above said inclined front wall, a longitudinal rail disposed medially on the said inclined wall, a guide rail on the top portion near the front side of the same a carrier comprising a platform, standards supporting said platform and provided at their lower ends with rollers mounted to travel on the lower rail, and supporting arms extending upwardly and rearwardly from the rear side of said platform and arranged to engage the upper guide rail.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE D. HAGAR. [11. s] 

